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FAQs About Cloudera
- What is Cloudera?
- What is Big Data?
- Who uses Cloudera?
- Why do customers choose Cloudera?
- How does Cloudera work with my existing data management infrastructure?
- What is Cloudera University?
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- What is Hadoop?
- What are some common use cases for Hadoop?
- What is the best way to get started with Hadoop (for developers and operators)?
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- What are Cloudera's products?
- What makes Cloudera's products unique?
- Why do I need a Cloudera Enterprise subscription?
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- Why does open source matter for customers?
- Is Cloudera's platform open source?
- What does Cloudera's open-source leadership mean for customers?
Cloudera offers a powerful and integrated Big Data platform comprising software, support, training, professional services, and indemnity. This platform, which has open source Apache Hadoop software at its core, allows customers to store, process, and analyze far more data, of more types and formats, and to do so more affordably than legacy technology -- allowing them to "ask bigger questions".
Cloudera was founded in 2008 by some of the top minds in Big Data, including Chief Strategy Officer Mike Olson (SleepyCat, Oracle), Chief Scientist Jeff Hammerbacher (Facebook), and Chief Technology Officer Amr Awadallah (Yahoo!). Cloudera's chief architect, Doug Cutting, is a founder of the Hadoop project.
Customer success is Cloudera's highest priority. We've enabled long-term, successful deployments for hundreds of customers, with petabytes of data collectively under management, across diverse industries.
Learn more about Cloudera here.
Generally speaking, the term "Big Data" refers to any data that for whatever reason (not just volume) cannot be affordably managed by your traditional systems. The key point is that Big Data is a relative concept and is highly contextual to the environment. For example, even if your organization doesn't accumulate data on a Facebook-like scale, or even if it primarily collects just one type of data, it may well have Big Data challenges as well as opportunities.
Learn more about Big Data here.
Cloudera's Big Data platform is the most popular in the world, with hundreds of customers in financial services, government, telecommunications, media, web, advertising, retail, energy, bioinformatics, pharma/healthcare, university research, oil and gas, and gaming.
Learn more about the companies using Cloudera here.
Why do customers choose Cloudera?
Cloudera was the first commercial provider of Hadoop-related software and services and has the most customers with enterprise requirements, and the most experience supporting them, in the industry. Cloudera's combined offering of differentiated software (open and closed source), support, training, professional services, and indemnity brings customers the greatest business value, in the shortest amount of time, at the lowest TCO.
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How does Cloudera work with my existing data management infrastructure?
The Cloudera Connect Partner Program, more than 600 companies strong, and is designed to champion partner advancement and solution development for the Big Data ecosystem. With more partners than any other Hadoop vendor and the only Hadoop provider with a technology certification program, Cloudera ensures consistency, reliability, and tight integration with enterprise environments.
Learn more about Cloudera's partners here.
Cloudera University offers public, private, and virtual classroom training and free online resources to give data professionals access to the most comprehensive selection of Hadoop learning materials. It has trained more than 15,000 people and certified more than 5,000 people since 2009, including data professionals from over half of the Fortune 100 and from all 20 of the top global technology firms.
Learn more about training from Cloudera University here.
The Hadoop project, which Doug Cutting founded in 2006, is an effort to create open source implementations of internal systems used by Web-scale companies such as Google, Yahoo!, and Facebook to manage and process massive data volumes. In summary, Hadoop enables distributed, parallel processing of huge amounts of data across industry-standard servers (with storage and processing occurring on the same machines), and it can scale indefinitely.
With Hadoop, you can continually store more data of all varieties, and then add multiple processing and analytic frameworks on top of it -- rather than moving your data to them, which is typical and expensive.
Learn more about Hadoop here.
What are some common use cases for Hadoop?
Hadoop allows you to process and access more data than ever before, so it has many near-term (operational) as well as long-term (strategic) use cases across multiple industries. Generally, Hadoop workloads fall into these broad categories:
- Transformation: Hadoop helps you transform large amounts of data more quickly, reliably, and affordably (e.g., for loading into the data warehouse).
- Active archiving: Hadoop gives you access to data that would otherwise be taken offline (e.g., to tape) due to the high cost of actively managing it.
- Exploration/Analytics: Hadoop lets you analyze and get value from data that otherwise could not be easily modeled in rigid relational systems.
Learn more about real-world applications for Hadoop here.
What's the best way to get started with Hadoop (for developers and operators)?
The Cloudera QuickStart VM -- which contains a single-node Hadoop cluster based on Cloudera Standard, a guest OS, and examples -- lets users install and run Hadoop on their desktop in minutes. It's a great way to explore Hadoop concepts as well as how Cloudera's platform works.
Learn more about QuickStart VM here.
Cloudera also offers an open source SDK called the Cloudera Development Kit (CDK). The CDK contains is a set of libraries, tools, examples, and documentation that make it easier for developers to build systems on top of the Hadoop stack.
Learn more about CDK here.
Finally, see "What is Cloudera University?" for information about training.
Cloudera's platform -- available in the form of CDH, Cloudera Standard, or Cloudera Enterprise -- is designed to specifically address customer opportunities and challenges in Big Data. The platform combines Hadoop with other open source ecosystem projects as well as closed source data management components to create a single, massively scalable system. All the integration work is done for you, and the entire solution is thoroughly tested for enterprise requirements and fully documented.
Learn more about Cloudera products here.
Why are Cloudera's products unique?
Cloudera's platform has several differentiating attributes that make it unique, including:
- Differences from commercial alternatives: Cloudera offers differentiating capabilities such as production-grade interactive SQL and Search on Hadoop; comprehensive system management with rolling upgrades, automated disaster recovery, centralized security, proactive health checks, and multi-cluster management; and simplified data management with granular auditing and access control capabilities.
- Differences from stock Apache Hadoop: Although Cloudera's platform contains the same code that can be found in the "upstream" Hadoop ecosystem projects, on a regular (quarterly) basis, Cloudera ships ("backports") new bug fixes and stable features for users of its platform. Thus, Cloudera customers get predictable and regular access to platform improvements, along with the assurances of rigorous testing and upstream compatibility.
Learn more about Cloudera products here.
Why do I need a Cloudera Enterprise subscription?
Cloudera Enterprise subscriptions, which include access to differentiated management software, 8x5 or 24x7 support, and indemnity, is an essential ingredient in any long-term, sustainable deployment. Furthermore, all Cloudera subscriptions are up for renewal annually, so Cloudera must continually re-prove its value to you.
Learn more about Cloudera support here.
Why does open source matter for customers?
Open source licensing and development offers customers powerful benefits, including freedom from lock-in, free no-obligation evaluation, rapid innovation on a global scale, and community-driven development. Freedom from lock-in is particularly important for customers where components that store and process data are involved.
Learn more about why open source matters here.
Is Cloudera's platform open source?
The core of Cloudera's platform, CDH, is open source (Apache License), so users always have the option to move their data to an alternative -- and thus Cloudera must continually earn your business based on merit. In fact, Cloudera is an open source leader in Big Data, with its employees collectively contributing more code to the Hadoop ecosystem than those of any other company.
Cloudera complements this open core with closed source management software that provides key enterprise functionality requested by customers such as support for rolling upgrades, auditing management, and disaster recovery. That software, however, does not store or process data and thus lock-in is not an issue.
What does Cloudera's open source leadership mean for customers?
Open source benefits, such as freedom from lock-in, are tangible and time-tested. That said, they are just "table stakes" when deploying a strategic open source platform like Hadoop.
Cloudera also leads the way to ensure that customer needs for performance, availability, security, and recoverability are met by new features in the Apache code base, and then shipping/supporting those features for customers in our platform. To make that goal possible, Cloudera employs more ecosystem committers, establishes more successful new ecosystem projects, and contributes more code to that ecosystem, than any other vendor.
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Choosing windows, whether they are replacement windows or windows for new construction, take research. Window salespeople have great pitches, some of which can seem hard to refuse. How can you judge for yourself whether or not they are offering you the right windows for your house? Go into the meeting with information "in your pocket". Know about R-values, grades of windows, window frames, and the true energy-saving potential of replacement windows.
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Annually Adjusting Property Values - Annually adjusting property values are part of Indiana's move to a market-based assessment system that began in 2002. Similar market-based assessment systems are currently being used in 48 other states.
The annual adjustments are calculated by comparing the prior year assessment with current sales data from a neighborhood. The difference, positive or negative, will be used to create a factor that assessing officials will apply to the property's assessed value to bring it to current market value.
Under the old system, real estate was generally only reassessed every 10 years. That left taxpayers with a large change in their assessments every decade. Annual adjustments curb that large lump sum change in assessments by annually adjusting values based on sales.
Appraisal - A supportable estimate of the fair market value of a property arrived at through application of guidelines that consider a number of market conditions and economic factors.
Appraiser - This is the title given to the individual who conducts the appraisal and writes the appraisal report. Appraisers are usually certified by a state regulatory agency. In Indiana, appraisers are certified by the Indiana Professional Licensing Agency.
Arrears - The term used when taxes paid in the current year represent the taxes owed for the previous year. Property taxes in Indiana are paid in arrears and are typically due annually in two installments – May 10 and November 10.
Assessment - The official act of discovering, listing and appraising property for ad valorem tax purposes. "Ad valorem" tax refers to any tax imposed on the basis of the monetary value of the taxed item. In Latin, the term literally means "according to value."
Assessment Appeal - The formal process through which property owners may dispute the assessed value of their property.
Assessed Values (AV) - The total dollar value assigned to all real property and improvements plus personal property subject to taxation. Locally elected assessors determine property values with assessment guides prescribed by the Department of Local Government Finance. These values may be changed by the county board of review. The Department of Local Government Finance assesses all public utilities and may make adjustments to other assessments.
Budget Order - The budget order is a critical document in calculating tax bills. The order contains the state's certification of the approved budget, the estimated assessed value, the tax rate and the levy for each fund of each taxing unit in a county. The order also gives the total tax rate and the local homestead credit rate for each taxing district.
Circuit Breaker - The method used to ensure that no more than a certain percentage of a property's assessed value is paid in taxes. The percentage represents the "cap" for property taxes on the property. If the taxes for a property exceed the cap percentage, a property tax credit is issued for the dollar amount above the cap. The actual property tax to be paid would then equal the dollar amount of the property's assessed value multiplied by the circuit breaker percentage cap. For example, if a property with an assessed value of $100,000 has a tax bill of $2100 and the circuit breaker percentage cap is 2%, a tax credit in the amount of $100 would be issued for that property, thereby reducing the property tax amount due to $2000 or 2% of its assessed value.
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Deduction - a situation where a taxpayer is permitted to subtract a fixed dollar amount from the assessed value of his property.
Exemption - a situation where a certain type of property, or the property of a certain kind of taxpayer, is not taxable.
Homestead Deduction - The homestead deduction is the most commonly used property tax deduction in Indiana. It allows homeowners who use a property as a primary residence to qualify for a reduction of up to 60 percent of the assessed value or $45,000, whichever is less, thereby lowering the property owner's property tax obligation. An individual or entity receiving a Homestead Standard Deduction also is entitled to receive a Supplemental Homestead Deduction. The amount of the Supplemental Homestead Deduction is 35 percent of the assessed value that is less than $600,000 and 25 percent of the assessed value that is more than $600,000.
Levy - The product of a specified tax rate and the assessed value. Levy terms include tuition support, maximum, and excessive.
Market Value - The most probable price, estimated in terms of money, which a property would bring in a sale between a willing buyer and seller under arms-length conditions, in an open market with adequate market exposure and reasonable marketing time.
Personal Property - Personal property typically involves moveable items that are not permanently affixed to a physical structure. Examples of personal property include: farm equipment, appliances that are not "built in" to the structure, vehicles, furniture and similar items.
Petition-Remonstrance Process - The petition and remonstrance is the process that allows for Hoosier taxpayers to object to a "controlled" project proposed by a local unit of government.
Property Tax Deductions - Deductions reduce the amount of assessed value a taxpayer pays on a given parcel of property. There are a number of property tax deductions available to Indiana property owners; however the homestead deduction is the most common and most widely used of these. Detailed information regarding allowable Indiana property tax deductions may be found on the DLGF Web site in the "Information for Taxpayers" section.
Property Tax Levy - The property tax levy is the amount of money that a taxing body requires to be collected through the property tax system.
Property Tax Rate - A percentage applied to each taxing body's assessed valuation which will produce the amount of that taxing body's levy, or, in other words, the levy divided by assessed value equals the tax rate. The tax rate is expressed in terms of "dollars per $100 of assessed value".
Real Property - The interests, benefits and rights inherent in the ownership of physical real estate.
Referendum - The local public question / referendum process applies only to a controlled project where the proper officers of the political subdivision make a preliminary determination to issue bonds or enter into a lease for the following: (1) a school building for academic instruction of any combination of grades K-8 that will cost more than $10,000,000; (2) a school building for academic instruction of any combination of grades 9-12 that will cost more than $20,000,000; or (3) any other controlled project that is not a school building project for academic instruction and will cost the political subdivision more than the lesser of $12,000,000 or an amount equal to 1 percent of the total gross assessed value of property within the political subdivision on the last assessment date (if that amount is at least $1,000,000).
Trending - Trending is a way of assessing the value of real estate. Trending requires assessors to research sales of properties in a particular area over the previous two years. Using that information, assessors then estimate the values of other properties in the same area to determine an assessed value.
In the past, the assessed values of real estate were adjusted only after a reassessment, which came as far apart as 10 years. Unlike reassessments, trending will occur every year.
Sales Comparables - Sales comparables are sales of properties which are used to indicate the value of a property that is being assessed or appraised. Comparable sales are normally similar in condition, style, size, location and utility to the property being evaluated. For example: for a one-story brick ranch-style home in average condition, with 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, a living room, kitchen and family room and 2-car garage, located in a specific neighborhood, a comparable sale would be a one-story brick ranch-style home in average condition, with 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, a living room, kitchen and family room and 2-car garage, ideally located in the same neighborhood as the home that is being assessed or appraised.
Special Assessments - An assessment against real estate levied by a public authority to pay for public improvements, e.g., sidewalks, sewers, street improvements, etc. or an amount levied against individual owners in a condominium or cooperative to cover their proportionate shares of a common expense.
Taxing District - This is the term for the geographic area within which taxing units have the authority to fund themselves via property taxes.
Taxing Unit - An organization or government body having the statutory right to fund itself through the property tax system. Examples include schools, park districts, villages and townships.


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The European Union has ordered everyone in the world to abolish the death penalty. This coming from the European Union that allegedly doesn't believe in one power handing out rules on the global stage.
May interest you to learn that last week, Ireland voted NO to an EU treaty: the EU has announced that the result will be ignored, and the treaty will go through anyway. So these people can lecture you?
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Minnesota Book Awards
A selection of recent picture book winners and finalists in children's categories. For more information, go to Minnesota Book Awards.
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Carlson, Nancy L.
Henry's Amazing Imagination!
When Henry's imagination gets mixed up with the truth during show and tell, his teacher suggests that he write and illustrate his own stories. 2008
Salas, Laura Purdie
Bookspeak! : Poems About Books
2012 Award for Children's Literature
A collection of wacky, whimsical poems about books and all the treasures they contain.
Thimmesh, Catherine
2012 Finalist for Children's Literature
This book offers a photo exploration of unlikely animal friendships, which not only gives readers insight into animals but challenges preconceived notions about compatibility.
Loewen, Nancy
The Last Day of Kindergarten
2012 Finalist for Children's Literature
As she prepares for her graduation ceremony, a first grader-to-be remembers her enjoyable year in kindergarten.
Sidman, Joyce
Swirl By Swirl : Spirals in Nature
2012 Finalist for Children's Literature
Celebrates the shape of a spiral in nature, from rushing rivers to flower buds and even the shape of an ear.
LaRochelle, David
1 1= 5 : and other Unlikely Additions
2012 Finalist for Children's Literature
Colorful illustrations and unusual calculations encourage children to think about numbers in a creative way.
Glaser, Linda
Emma's Poem : the Voice of the Statue of Liberty
2011 Finalist for Children's Literature
The story of Emma Lazarus, who, despite her life of privilege, became a tireless advocate for the immigrants who arrived in New York City in the 1880s and wrote a famous poem for the Statue of Liberty.
Hall, Michael
My Heart is Like a Zoo
2011 Award for Children's Literature
Depicts in rhyming text how love can be many different things, such as eager as a beaver, steady as a yak, or silly as a seal.
Frisch, Aaron
A Night On the Range
2011 Finalist for Children's Literature
As he camps overnight in the backyard, an aspiring young cowboy with a healthy imagination spends his first night "on the range."
Bauer, Marion Dane
The Longest Night
2010 Finalist for Children's Literature
One very long night, a crow, a moose, and a fox all claim they can bring back the sun, but the wind knows that only one little creature has what is needed to end the darkness.
Sidman, Joyce
Red Sings from Treetops : a Year in Colors
2010 Award for Children's Literature
Nature displays different colors to announce the seasons of the year.
McGhee, Alison
Song of Middle C
2010 Finalist for Children's Literature
Miss Kari, my piano teacher, tells me that true artistry takes great imagination. It also takes a lot of practice. The big day of my piano recital is almost here, and hoo boy, have I been practicing! I've even got the help of my lucky hat and shoes -- not to mention my lucky underwear.
Salas, Laura Purdie
Stampede! : Poems to Celebrate the Wild Side of School
2012 Finalist for Children's Literature
An inventive poetry collection that shows the wild side of first- and second-graders at school. These 18 funny and imaginative poems observe students in their natural habitat and reveal their unusual behavior, crazy communication, and very healthy appetites. Whether they're in the classroom, on the playground, or in the cafeteria, school brings out the animal in all of them.
Carlson, Nancy L.
Henry's Amazing Imagination!
2009 Finalist for Children's Literature
When Henry's imagination gets mixed up with the truth during show and tell, his teacher suggests that he write and illustrate his own stories.
Swanson, Susan Marie
The House in the Night
2009 Award for Children's Literature
Illustrations and easy-to-read text explore the light that makes a house in the night a home filled with light.
Monroe, Chris.
Monkey with a Tool Belt
2009 Finalist for Children's Literature
Clever monkey Chico Bon Bon builds lots of things with his many tools, and when he is captured by an organ grinder, he uses them to help him escape and get back home.
Lyon, George Ella
My Friend the Starfinder
2009 Finalist for Children's Literature
A child relates some of the wondrous tales told by an old man who once found a falling star and stood at the end of a rainbow.
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The PHP-based Drupal framework makes dynamic websites simple. The modular system is extensible using free modules and the appearance is template-driven. In this article, we will be delving into Drupal's range of functions and discussing installation and basic configuration.
Community sites account for some of the most heavily frequented sites on the Web. Users can register with the site and contribute articles or commentaries on a variety of topics. Drupal [1] was originally designed for this task and gives you everything you need to set up a convenient community site. But on top of that, Drupal is a fullfledged Content Management System capable of supporting a wide range of websites, from simple weblogs to professional company sites. Drupal is written in PHP and uses a database to store content. The complete source code of the system has been placed under the GNU General Public License (GPL) and can thus be freely used, modified and distributed. The "The Birth of Drupal" box gives you a short overview of the history of Drupal and explains how it got its name.
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Every year at Allen and Co's annual conference, several hot new startups make an appearance in Sun Valley. This year, the list of newcomers include Evernote, Cloudera, Nextdoor, and Uber.
CNBC's Kayla Tausche caught up with Uber CEO Travis Kalanick for an extended interview just after the on-demand transportation service won a big victory in Washington, D.C., where City Council was set to approve an amendment to taxi legislation that would have made it illegal for Uber to lower prices.
For those not familiar with Uber, its iPhone and Android apps allow users to request a ride (usually a black car/limo) anywhere at any time as long as Uber operates in your city. Uber got its start in San Francisco and is now in 13 cities worldwide including New York, Boston, and London.
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3- roosting chambers, providing shelter for up to 300 bats!
If you have problems with mosquitoes, install this bat house to encourage them to live nearby. Bats sleep during the day, and emerge at night to eat bugs such as mosquitoes, moths, flies, and gnats. Unless you stay up and watch, you might never even see the bats. The ultimate in low-impact, non-toxic pest control, bats are a great way of reducing your insect population in a natural way.
Designed using North American Bat House Research Project guidelines, this well-made bat house is made from rough cedar with a exterior-grade ¾" plywood back. The un-treated cedar will weather to a nice gray color over time.
Bats live across North America, but since they're small, fast, and nocturnal, you may have never noticed them in your neighbourhood. Since this bat house is such an ideal home for them, within a month or so you should have some bats starting to live there. Bats will find it quicker if it is located 15 to 20 feet off the ground , facing the southeast. Bats tend to find bat houses mounted on poles much faster than those mounted on trees. You can also mount a bat house under the eaves of your house, provided it is high enough off the ground.
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- Interior nylon mesh so it's easy for them to move around
- Built to OBC Specs (the Organization for Bat Conservation) based on 10 years of research.
- Ventilation slot promotes air circulation
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- Constructed with wood glue instead of toxic or smelly glues to keep your bats healthy.
- No paint or finishes are used. Just natural, long lasting weather resistant wood.
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- Dimensions: 24" long, 14.5" wide, 5" deep.
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This year has been an exciting one for Pitha Udomkanjananan. In addition to graduating with an MFA in Advertising, the Academy of Art University alum has won a Student ADDY Best of Show Award and two One Show College Merit Awards, as well as making it to the shortlist of the CLIO Student Integrated Campaign Awards.
As three of the most watched awards programs in the advertising industry, the ADDYs, One Show Awards and CLIOs also recognize outstanding student work. Students winning these awards draw attention from advertising agencies around the world. This month, Pitha starts work at Creative Juice (TBWA) in Bangkok as an art director.
Pitha's ESPN Radio campaign, which won a National Student ADDY Best of Show Award as well as awards regionally and in San Francisco, focuses on a single, strong visual message. The pieces turn tennis courts, football fields, pitcher's mounds and more into speech bubbles, with each bubble attributed to ESPN Radio.
"I'm a big fan of simplicity, a simple idea," said Pitha of the campaign. "That's what I really like about this campaign. It's simple and very easy to understand."
To create a meaningful engagement with consumers, Pitha also envisioned a game element to the campaign. Viewers would be able to interact with posters and print collateral with their smart phones, even competing against others online to get the highest score.
Showing his talent for bringing ideas to life on the page and on the screen, Pitha's other winning ads include integrated campaigns for City Harvest in New York and for Twinkies.
His project for City Harvest draws on elements of games and puzzles to convey the idea that some people deal with hunger on a regular basis. One memorable print ad shows sushi placed on a plate that is also a maze, with the words, "Not everyone has easy access to food. Donate now to solve hunger in New York."
"Twinkie Vortex" creates an elaborate world in which users can explore, play games and interact. The concept positions Twinkies as an otherworldly delight, imagining a planet where users can "Brave the creamy unknown." The campaign included a microsite, outdoor advertising, online ads and more.
As he joins the team at Creative Juice (TBWA) in Bangkok, he will be working at the same company as fellow Academy of Art University Advertising alumnus Thirasak Tanapatanakul, who is the Chief Creative Officer at the agency.
With his flair for creativity, Pitha has now landed himself a position doing what he considers to be one of the most intriguing jobs in the world. "The two coolest careers in my opinion are rock star and advertising creative," he said.
Partly due to his time at the Academy's School of Advertising, Pitha looks forward to his new role and all of the new media platforms he will create for during his career. "Nowadays, the advertising industry is constantly changing. That's a lot of new ways to advertise: digital, new media, social media and many more," he said. "The school prepared us for the new era of advertising."
Given his award-winning work, Pitha is sure to help usher in that new era.
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